Milwaukee Brewers
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) — The Milwaukee Brewers ranked 22nd in the majors with 166 home runs during the regular season. They didn’t homer in their game one victory in this NL Division Series.
But Monday night was a different story. Milwaukee got three -run homers from Andrew Vaughn and Jackson Chourio and a solo shot from William Contreras in a 7-3 win over the Chicago Cubs to take a two games to none lead in the series.
The Cubs took a 3-0 lead in the first inning on a three-run homer from Seiya Suzuki off starter Aaron Ashby. But Vaughn tied it up on his blast in the bottom of the inning.
Even though the Brewers had said that Quinn Priester would follow Ashby, that was a ruse as this was to be a bullpen game all along. Six pitchers followed Ashby with Jacob Misiorowski shaking off his late season wildness with three innings of scoreless ball to pick up the win. Misiorowski threw 31 of his 57 pitches over 100 MPH with one hitting 104. He struck out four and walked two allowing just one hit.
Contreras broke a 3-3 tie with his solo homer in the 3rd inning and Chourio, who wasn’t even supposed to play with a bad hamstring, nailed a three-run shot on a 104 MPH fastball in the 4th to blow the game open.
The series now heads to Chicago for game three on Wednesday with the first pitch set for 4:08 at Wrigley Field. You can hear the broadcast on WSAU.
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